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MT Browder Nov 2019
There aint but one way to love
It's all in with the hand you're dealt
It's pedal to the metal till your pistons melt
There aint but one way to love
It's down to your last dime
It's every second of every time
There aint but one way to love
It's no regrets no what ifs in the end
It's heart in your throat when you hit send
There aint but one way to love
It's your guts all in a knot
It's a deep breath and your last shot
There aint but one way to love
It's all in with the hand you're dealt
It's pedal to the metal till your pistons melt
MT Browder Nov 2019
What it means to be the
force that stands
What it takes to be the
force that's ready
What it gives of self to
be the force deployed
What it wants from a
nation free and proud
What it needs is a
simple thank you
What it gets has to
be enough
What it believes
doesn't matter
What it does
is whatever it's ask
What it is----is you
I'm a veteran, this is for my brothers and sisters
MT Browder Nov 2019
I walk in a minefield of egos
tiptoeing around pet peeves
dodging triggers
careful with words
very careful with words
quick with a compliment
soft with a suggestion
very soft with a suggestion
taking abuse with a smile
taking abuse with a smile
taking abuse with a smile
MT Browder Nov 2019
Number 1 was a bogey
2 was a double
3 was a par
4 was a lot of trouble
5 went in the water
6 found a tree
7 made me pay
8 was a snowman in more than one way
9, I was glad to see a par 5
and make the turn at least alive
a beer and teed up 10
and found the beach....again
11 went out of bounds
12 saw more strokes than the polo grounds
13, a birdie, put in from nearly thirty
14 made me really think about
why the hell I came out
15, next to the range and drain pipe
....hey why does my ball now have a stripe
16, could I please have a ball
17 found the grass that was real real tall
18 was a three putt, the green was very sloping,
with a little more practice, I'll be ready for the open!
MT Browder Nov 2019
"Come here and let me feel, you don't look well"
with her hand on my head,
"You know a mother can tell"
"Did you take your vitamins today"
yes mom, as she sticks a thermometer in
"Hold it in this way"
" There's a bug going round school,
and you went out, no jacket, like a fool"
I'd mumble, it wasn't cold....
"Keep that in you mouth, like you were told"
She takes it out and holds it to the light
"See 100 point 6...see I was right"
A box of medicine comes down quick
Searching through, calculating what to pick
"This will bring the fever down,
If not I'll call the doctor in town"
Another cabinet, and searching for more
I think she has more medicine than the drug store
One more pill box comes down from above
Why does she look so hard, I got the best
medicine first.......LOVE
MT Browder Nov 2019
I was little, play'n in the dirt
grown folk went to work
when the sun was high and hot
she'd stand close and make a shady spot
....and sing

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where

I was grown and in the row
big ole sun moving offly slow
I went pulling that bacca plant
this ole tune we'd often chant

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where

I'm old watch'n kids in the dirt
young folks went to work
The sun is high and hot
I stand close to make a shady spot
...and sing

Aint no shade in heaven
and I'm going to see when I'm there
Aint no shade in heaven
cause His light shines every where
The "she" in this is my great-grandmother who would actually make shade for me and my brother when we were very small children.
MT Browder Oct 2019
If my heart
Were a thousand room hotel
And your love come look ’n
It can go straight to hell

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
Were big as the blue shy
And your love had wings
It would never ever ever fly

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
As big as the ocean be
your love would never sail
it’d sink to the bottom of the deep dark sea

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back
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